Measurement of the $W^{+}W^{-} \gamma$ Cross-section and First direct Limits on Anomalous Electroweak Quartic Gauge Couplings

A study of W+W- events accompanied by hard photon radiation produced in e+e- collisions at LEP is presented. Events consistent with two on-shell W-bosons and an isolated photon are selected from 183pb^-1 of data recorded at root{s}=189GeV. From these data, 17 W+W-gamma candidates are selected with p...

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Autores principales: Abbiendi, G., Ackerstaff, K., Akesson, P.F., Alexander, G., Allison, John, Anderson, K.J., Arcelli, S., Asai, S., Ashby, S.F., Axen, D., Azuelos, G., Bailey, I., Ball, A.H., Barberio, E., Barlow, Roger J., Batley, J.R., Baumann, S., Behnke, T., Bell, Kenneth Watson, Bella, G., Bellerive, A., Bentvelsen, S., Bethke, S., Betts, S., Biebel, O., Biguzzi, A., Bloodworth, I.J., Bock, P., Bohme, J., Boeriu, O., Bonacorsi, D., Boutemeur, M., Braibant, S., Bright-Thomas, P., Brigliadori, L., Brown, Robert M., Burckhart, H.J., Capiluppi, P., Carnegie, R.K., Carter, A.A., Carter, J.R., Chang, C.Y., Charlton, David G., Chrisman, D., Ciocca, C., Clarke, P.E.L., Clay, E., Cohen, I., Conboy, J.E., Cooke, O.C., Couchman, J., Couyoumtzelis, C., Coxe, R.L., Cuffiani, M., Dado, S., Dallavalle, G.Marco, Dallison, S., Davis, R., de Roeck, A., Dervan, P., Desch, K., Dienes, B., Dixit, M.S., Donkers, M., Dubbert, J., Duchovni, E., Duckeck, G., Duerdoth, I.P., Estabrooks, P.G., Etzion, E., Fabbri, F., Fanfani, A., Fanti, M., Faust, A.A., Feld, L., Ferrari, P., Fiedler, F., Fierro, M., Fleck, I., Frey, A., Furtjes, A., Futyan, D.I., Gagnon, P., Gary, J.W., Gaycken, G., Geich-Gimbel, C., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, P., Gingrich, D.M., Glenzinski, D., Goldberg, J., Gorn, W., Grandi, C., Graham, K., Gross, E., Grunhaus, J., Gruwe, M., Hajdu, C., Hanson, G.G., Hansroul, M., Hapke, M., Harder, K., Harel, A., Hargrove, C.K., Harin-Dirac, M., Hauschild, M., Hawkes, C.M., Hawkings, R., Hemingway, R.J., Herten, G., Heuer, R.D., Hildreth, M.D., Hill, J.C., Hobson, P.R., Hocker, James Andrew, Hoffman, Kara Dion, Homer, R.J., Honma, A.K., Horvath, D., Hossain, K.R., Howard, R., Huntemeyer, P., Igo-Kemenes, P., Imrie, D.C., Ishii, K., Jacob, F.R., Jawahery, A., Jeremie, H., Jimack, M., Jones, C.R., Jovanovic, P., Junk, T.R., Kanaya, N., Kanzaki, J., Karapetian, G., Karlen, D., Kartvelishvili, V., Kawagoe, K., Kawamoto, T., Kayal, P.I., Keeler, R.K., Kellogg, R.G., Kennedy, B.W., Kim, D.H., Klier, A., Kobayashi, T., Kobel, M., Kokott, T.P., Kolrep, M., Komamiya, S., Kowalewski, Robert V., Kress, T., Krieger, P., von Krogh, J., Kuhl, T., Kupper, M., Kyberd, P., Lafferty, G.D., Landsman, H., Lanske, D., Lauber, J., Lawson, I., Layter, J.G., Lellouch, D., Letts, J., Levinson, L., Liebisch, R., Lillich, J., List, B., Littlewood, C., Lloyd, A.W., Lloyd, S.L., Loebinger, F.K., Long, G.D., Losty, M.J., Lu, J., Ludwig, J., Macchiolo, A., Macpherson, A., Mader, W., Mannelli, M., Marcellini, S., Marchant, T.E., Martin, A.J., Martin, J.P., Martinez, G., Mashimo, T., Mattig, Peter, McDonald, W.John, McKenna, J., Mckigney, E.A., McMahon, T.J., McPherson, R.A., Meijers, F., Mendez-Lorenzo, P., Merritt, F.S., Mes, H., Meyer, I., Michelini, A., Mihara, S., Mikenberg, G., Miller, D.J., Mohr, W., Montanari, A., Mori, T., Nagai, K., Nakamura, I., Neal, H.A., Nisius, R., O'Neale, S.W., Oakham, F.G., Odorici, F., Ogren, H.O., Okpara, A., Oreglia, M.J., Orito, S., Pasztor, G., Pater, J.R., Patrick, G.N., Patt, J., Perez-Ochoa, R., Petzold, S., Pfeifenschneider, P., Pilcher, J.E., Pinfold, J., Plane, David E., Poli, B., Polok, J., Przybycien, M., Quadt, A., Rembser, C., Rick, H., Robins, S.A., Rodning, N., Roney, J.M., Rosati, S., Roscoe, K., Rossi, A.M., Rozen, Y., Runge, K., Runolfsson, O., Rust, D.R., Sachs, K., Saeki, T., Sahr, O., Sang, W.M., Sarkisian, E.K.G., Sbarra, C., Schaile, A.D., Schaile, O., Scharff-Hansen, P., Schieck, J., Schmitt, S., Schoning, A., Schroder, Matthias, Schumacher, M., Schwick, C., Scott, W.G., Seuster, R., Shears, T.G., Shen, B.C., Shepherd-Themistocleous, C.H., Sherwood, P., Siroli, G.P., Skuja, A., Smith, A.M., Snow, G.A., Sobie, R., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spagnolo, S., Sproston, M., Stahl, A., Stephens, K., Stoll, K., Strom, David M., Strohmer, R., Surrow, B., Talbot, S.D., Taras, P., Tarem, S., Teuscher, R., Thiergen, M., Thomas, J., Thomson, M.A., Torrence, E., Towers, S., Trefzger, T., Trigger, I., Trocsanyi, Z., Tsur, E., Turner-Watson, M.F., Ueda, I., Van Kooten, Rick J., Vannerem, P., Verzocchi, M., Voss, H., Wackerle, F., Waller, D., Ward, C.P., Ward, D.R., Watkins, P.M., Watson, A.T., Watson, N.K., Wells, P.S., Wengler, T., Wermes, N., Wetterling, D., White, J.S., Wilson, G.W., Wilson, J.A., Wyatt, T.R., Yamashita, S., Zacek, V., Zer-Zion, D.
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 1999
Materias:
Particle Physics - Experiment
Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0370-2693(99)01357-X
http://cds.cern.ch/record/405987
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Sumario:A study of W+W- events accompanied by hard photon radiation produced in e+e- collisions at LEP is presented. Events consistent with two on-shell W-bosons and an isolated photon are selected from 183pb^-1 of data recorded at root{s}=189GeV. From these data, 17 W+W-gamma candidates are selected with photon energy greater than 10GeV, consistent with the Standard Model expectation. These events are used to measure the e+e- to W+W-gamma cross-section within a set of geometric and kinematic cuts; sigma{W+W-gamma} = 136+-37+-8 fb, where the first error is statistical and the second systematic. The photon energy spectrum is used to set the first direct, albeit weak, limits on possible anomalous contributions to the {W+ W- gamma gamma} and {W+ W- gamma Z0} vertices: -0.070GeV^{-2} < a_0/Lambda^2 < 0.070GeV^{-2}, -0.13GeV^{-2} < a_c/Lambda^2 < 0.19GeV^{-2}, -0.61GeV^{-2} < a_n/Lambda^2 < 0.57GeV^{-2}, where Lambda represents the energy scale for new physics.

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